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04 28 2025 Daniel 2 · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, it is Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: April twenty eight, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is very simply. It's a
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  Speaker 2: passage Daniel Cha two or Daniel two. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this opportunity to open up your
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  Speaker 2: word and I'm asking you to transform our lives today.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to see ourselves on the grand landscape of history.
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  Speaker 2: But more than that, help us to see ourselves in
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  Speaker 2: connection with You in eternity. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and a man again. Well. One of the most
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  Speaker 2: incredible places in the scriptures that helps us to know
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  Speaker 2: that the Bible is indeed and in fact true is
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  Speaker 2: Daniel chapter two. I wish I had the time to
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  Speaker 2: really drill it, but we have to look at the
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  Speaker 2: main point because today there was so much that we
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  Speaker 2: could cover. We could cover the false, the false theory
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  Speaker 2: of Darwinism and evolution. We could cover so many things
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  Speaker 2: in history that people have mixed up to their demise,
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  Speaker 2: but we want to cover one of the main points, really,
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  Speaker 2: which is contrary contrary to the most trumpet popular belief.
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  Speaker 2: I said, contrary to the most trumpeted popular belief. We
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  Speaker 2: are not getting better than ever. We are not getting
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  Speaker 2: better than ever, even in nature. Even in nature, the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Nature teaches us that matter left alone tends
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  Speaker 2: to break down, not build up, not improve. The evolutionary
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  Speaker 2: theory has things mixed up in backwards. Okay, so we're
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  Speaker 2: not getting better, things are deteriorating, unless, of course, we
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  Speaker 2: are fully connected to God and we learn to worship him,
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  Speaker 2: and so really, briefly from the Bible Book of Daniel,
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  Speaker 2: chapter two, beginning at verse thirty one, we read, now, oh,
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  Speaker 2: king sawest and behold a great image. So God is
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  Speaker 2: revealing to King Nebuchadnezzar his dream, and then he unfolds
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  Speaker 2: so much about history and so much about what is
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  Speaker 2: to come. You saw a great image. That great image,
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  Speaker 2: whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee, and his form
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  Speaker 2: thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold,
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  Speaker 2: his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and
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  Speaker 2: his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet
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  Speaker 2: part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till
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  Speaker 2: the stone somebody type in the Chat the stone the
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  Speaker 2: stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image
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  Speaker 2: upon his feet that were of iron and of clay,
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  Speaker 2: and break them into pieces. Then that then was the iron,
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  Speaker 2: the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken
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  Speaker 2: into pieces together, and became like the chaff of the
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  Speaker 2: summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, and
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  Speaker 2: there was no place found for them. And the stone
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  Speaker 2: that smote the image became a great mountain type in
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  Speaker 2: the Chat, great mountain, and filled the whole earth. I
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  Speaker 2: think the Bible says that that one day this entire
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  Speaker 2: earth will be filled with the glory of God. Can
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  Speaker 2: we just cut to the chase? Can we hurry up
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  Speaker 2: and get to the end. Analysis that the stone that
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  Speaker 2: was cut out of the gate, the of the that
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  Speaker 2: smote the image and became a great mountain is of
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  Speaker 2: course the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: that supplants every single earthly kingdom. Now, let me not
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  Speaker 2: run through and miss this. So there are a few
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  Speaker 2: key truths that I'd like to identify here. I have
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  Speaker 2: so much more, but we listen, we just literally don't
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  Speaker 2: have the time. Number One, we want to identify and
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  Speaker 2: see and worship God because of his divine fore knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, in the Bible Book of Isaiah, multiple times
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  Speaker 2: in the chapters in the forties, God flexes his supernatural
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  Speaker 2: muscle and says, I declare that which is in the
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  Speaker 2: end from the beginning. He's the one who inhabits eternity. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he's the one who was, who is, and is to come.
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  Speaker 2: If you can do that, then you're worthy of worship.
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  Speaker 2: But he's showing us in this prophecy that he sees
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  Speaker 2: everything like he knew everything before it happened. God revealed
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  Speaker 2: future world empires through symbols, through symbols, showing his complete
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of history and the future. And then he demonstrates
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  Speaker 2: something very interesting. This deteriorating quality, the descending value of
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  Speaker 2: the metals suggests very clearly the declining quality or unity
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  Speaker 2: in successive earthly kingdoms. The kingdoms are not getting stronger
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, despite the global economy. Despite when people
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  Speaker 2: say that there is a world power or empire. Every
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  Speaker 2: single world empire has been destroyed, even empires that we
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  Speaker 2: see building today. I wish I had the time. And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course, to the point that I just made, that
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  Speaker 2: there is a temporary nature all earthly kingdoms, regardless of
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  Speaker 2: their power, regardless of their so called economic prowess, regardless
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  Speaker 2: of their armies, regardless of diplomatic relations, they are temporary.
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  Speaker 2: But God. In our first fourth point, he demonstrates that
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  Speaker 2: there is supernatural intervention. The stone that is the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. The stone cut without hands represents divine not
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  Speaker 2: human action. I wish I had the time to cover
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  Speaker 2: the rest of those points that I have there for you,
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  Speaker 2: But I want to identify very clearly the kingdoms. I'll
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  Speaker 2: identify the kingdoms the head of gold. The head of gold,
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  Speaker 2: of course, is the Babylonian Empire, some may call Neo Babylonian.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, at that time was ruled by Nebuchadnezzar, and
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  Speaker 2: then and then the the lesser quality of metal represented
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  Speaker 2: here the chest and arms of silver represents the media
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  Speaker 2: Persian or Meato Persian Empire. In fact, the Bible teaches
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  Speaker 2: us that that Cyrus was like a type of Christ
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  Speaker 2: God used King Cyrus as a symbol of himself and
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  Speaker 2: overthrew the Babylonian Empire. But ironically, the the the the silver,
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  Speaker 2: the silver was of a lesser quality of metal. Weird.
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  Speaker 2: And then the third one, of course, the Bellian thighs
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  Speaker 2: of brass or the Grecian Empire, uh still lesser quality
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  Speaker 2: of of of metal, and yet it was stronger and
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  Speaker 2: supplanted the power that also supplanted the power which was
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  Speaker 2: before it. And then it gets even weirder. The legs
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  Speaker 2: of iron the Western Roman Empire, which again iron was
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  Speaker 2: even of a lesser value, and it also supplanted, of course,
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  Speaker 2: the feet and iron of clay. There's so much more
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  Speaker 2: we could say, but not yet because we just literally
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  Speaker 2: don't have the time. But these divided kingdoms, those kingdoms
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  Speaker 2: that came out of the Western Roman Empire, many of
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  Speaker 2: which now represent the countries of modern day Europe. But
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line is, at the appropriate time, the time
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  Speaker 2: we're waiting for, Jesus is going to show us that
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  Speaker 2: he is King of kings and Lord of lords.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening, friends, Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,